Beast of The East
Every spring, Montreal roller derby hosts an invitational tournament at Arena St Louis known as The Beast of The East. Sixteen teams play a tournament of abbreviated bouts over the course of the weekend. The tournament is open to home teams only - not travel, or "all-star" teams - and is typically the last weekend in April. The 2012 edition played April 20 and 21.
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Famous quotes containing the words beast of the, beast and/or east:
“his head
May not lie on the breast nor his lips on the hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
Must I endure your amorous cries?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Though all the East did quake to hear
Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
And all the West likewise did fear
To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,”
—Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)